Subject: RE: bug#20623: XML and HTML files with encoding/charset="utf-8" declaration loose BOM; Coding system is reset from utf-8-with-signature to utf-8 on save

From: Simon Ledergerber <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 19:11:15 +0200

As already mentioned in my last post, even when I started Emacs with the option -Q, which should opt out my customizations, it made no difference. So naturally, the source of the problem will be somewhere else.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email-masked]>
Sent: ‎23.‎05.‎2015 08:44
To: "Stefan Monnier" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>; "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: bug#20623: XML and HTML files with encoding/charset="utf-8"	declaration loose BOM; Coding system is reset from utf-8-with-signature to utf-8 on save

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:51:07 -0400
> 
> >> > What would you expect Emacs to do instead?  It just obeys the stated
> >> > encoding, which says nothing about the BOM.  How can Emacs know when
> >> > to use utf-8 and when utf-8-with-signature?
> >> To the extent that Emacs has seen the BOM when opening the file, it
> >> would make sense for Emacs to try and preserve this detail.
> > It does.
> 
> While there are cases where it does, this bug report is about a case
> where it doesn't, IIUC.

AFAIU, that happened because the user has this in ~/.emacs:

  (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-dos)

IMO, this bad customization should be removed, and then the problem
will go away.